Many parents think their children spend too much time playing video games, but a few have decided to help their offspring gain something constructive from their pastime. Students from local elementary and high schools enrolled this summer in the College of Extended and International Education’s (CEIE) Video Game Art and Design, Cartoons in Motion, and Advanced Video Game Design summer camps, and as a result, many of them have decided to pursue a career in designing video games. Devin Aikens will enter the 10th grade at Fernando Pullum Performing Arts High School, Los Angeles this fall. He says that his mother enrolled him the in the four-day Video Game Art and Design program last ... Read More
Art and Design
Music Department Earns Full Term of Accreditation from NASM
The music department at California State University, Dominguez Hills has recently been given another full ten-year accreditation by the National Association of Music Schools (NASM). Richard Kravchak, professor of music and the department’s chair, says that CSU Dominguez Hills is one of only nine music departments in all of California to hold accreditation from both NASM and the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing, an achievement he is proud of in the face of the state’s budget reductions in higher education and that he credits “the degree of personal involvement of all of our faculty in the education of every music student.” “All of our music professors are practicing creative ... Read More
